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We have just taken delivery of our first Jorgensen Album from Australia and are delighted with the quality.

We have spent some time this year trying out other makes of album and have been looking for a manufacturer that provides the quality we need. The Jorgensen Albums are built to the highest standard and are hand made in Australia before being shipped to South West Photo Mounts in the UK for printing and final assembly.

The albums are available in Classic Print and Matte format, or contemporary Storybook style and we feel that these are the albums which best display our imagery and reflect the quality of our work.

We hope you think so too!

For more information on Jorgensen Albums, visit www.jorgensenalbums.com and to view the albums first hand, book a viewing and consultation with us.

I am very pleased to announce that i have managed to get a Gold award in last months SWPP monthly competition in the Landscape Category. The picture was taken on a recent trip to Scotland and is featured below.

In addition, four of our Silver awarded pictures from throughout the year have been upgraded to Gold and will entered in the final. One of these pictures is the one featured on the blog header and others are included in previous blog posts. To view the competition results, visit

http://www.swpp.co.uk/image_competition_upgrades/winnerspg30.htm and

http://www.swpp.co.uk/image_competition_upgrades/winnerspg29.htm

http://www.swpp.co.uk/image_competition_nov_08/winnerspg16.htm

The picture will be published in the next edition of Image Maker, the SWPP bi-monthly magazine and will also be automatically entered into the Annual Competition at the SWPP Convention in London in January. We have been invited to the award ceremony and the picture will be competing with all the Gold winners from 2008.

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We also managed a Silver award for this bridal picture of Collette taken at her wedding at Swynford Paddocks in October.

To view more of our work, please visit our main website at www.aspectphoto.co.uk or click on any picture.

One of our selling points is the amount of post production photoshop work we do on our photographs, so i thought it would be a good idea to show how this can dramatically change a picture into something a bit special. It also gives me the chance to show some examples of my landscape work!

So, here’s an example of a picture taken recently at Glen Etive near Glen Coe in Scotland. The mountain is Buachaille Etive Mor and is stunningly beautiful.

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In order to create mood, i took a couple of shots at different exposures in order to get some sky detail. I then blended them together, applied some further effects and a bit of dodge and burn.

How about another from the same place. This time i drove further up the road to a small white cottage i had seen in the distance. It is called Black Rock Cottage and it was surely made to be photographed! While i was there a group of people arrived who were doing a course in landscape photography. I hope they got some great shots too.

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Again, i took a couple of shots and blended the two together and added the same effects as the previous shot……

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Finally, a shot of a cliff top church taken near Weston Super Mare. Here’s the basic shot…..

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And after a bit of photoshop magic…..

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I hope you enjoyed looking at some of my ‘non-wedding’ work. If you book a wedding consultation with us, you will get to see these pictures framed and on our walls at home. They look great, though i say so myself!

I noticed that on the new blog site there isn’t a mention of our window display in Saffron Walden, so here’s a reminder.

We have a permanent window display in the market town of Saffron Walden at the entrance to Holly Trees Hairdressers in Cross Street. We change the pictures around occassionally so it’s always worth taking a look to see what’s new. (You could even get your hair done – they are very good as my daughter Gabrielle will testify !)

It’s also a good opportunity to see our printed work close up and framed. We use Ultimat frames which are exclusive to photographers and are a first class frames and mounts which really display the photographs in all their glory.

We are in the process of displaying more framed prints at Bride-All, the wedding shop in Exning, near Newmarket. We are the recommended photographers of Bride-All and will be featuring in the new brochure which will be available from the wedding shop. Our framed photographs will soon be on the walls of the shop and sample wedding albums will be on display to browse through.

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We are pleased to announce that we now have a new html site working alongside our main flash site. We decided to make another site which was more search engine friendly and should get higher up the rankings when google picks it up. You can visit the site at www.cambridge-wedding-photographer.co.uk or click through from the front page of our flash site.

October 25th 2008, Swynford Paddocks, near Newmarket, Suffolk.

Collette and Stuart decided on an intimate wedding with just a few guests at Swynford Paddocks Hotel at Six Mile Bottom, near Newmarket in Suffolk. The hotel is a 17th Century house and makes an ideal location for weddings, providing photographers with some lovely settings.

The autumn weather had turned chilly, so we decided to do most of the pictures inside, using a blend of natural light, flash and video light.

The main window at Swynford Paddocks provides lovely soft daylight for bridal portraits.

And another of Collette at the window. I love this shot……

Collette looking stunning on the stairs at Swynford Paddocks.

Taken outside briefly before we all got too cold!

Just Married!

The staircase provides some great location shots. This was taken using ambient light and video light.

To view more of our work, please visit our main website at www.aspectphoto.co.uk or click on any picture.

Although we predominantly do wedding photography, we also do location portraiture. After all, wedding photography is a blend of location portraiture, photojournalism and maybe a bit of fashion and landscape photography thrown in for good measure. That’s what makes modern wedding photography so challenging and exciting.

Anyway, we thought you might be interested to see a few pictures of Gabrielle, that we recently took in Saffron Walden. Location portraiture is a far more interesting and natural way to photograph people. We reckon that the studio shots and white background thing has been done to death. Fashion magazines don’t do them and neither do we.

If you would like to book a portrait session with us, please contact us to arrange a booking. We have plenty of scenes waiting to be photographed in!

Photographed in our hallway with a video light shining through the glass door.

We are constantly on the lookout for suitable backgrounds to use in location portraiture and pre wedding photoshoots. This exquisite location in Saffron Walden is perfect.

A nice, relaxed and natural pose which looks great in sepia.

Three seperate lights sources have been used in this shot, blending natural sunlight and multiple flash. We may be on location, but our lighting is still controlled for each shot.

Every picture requires a bit of post production work. This photograph has a few subtle adjustments to create a richer quality. We took the picture using a blend of flash and daylight.

We finished the photoshoot with this close up which was taken using only daylight and a reflector.

We are delighted to announce that the Bridal wedding gown shop, Bride-All in Exning, Newmarket, has chosen us to be their recommended wedding photographer!

We will be featured in a full page advertisement in their new luxury brochure which will be available in a few weeks time. The brochure is given to all new customers visiting the shop and also at several wedding fairs in the region. Our work will also be displayed at the shop sometime in the near future and we are planning some exciting new displays and promotions in association with Bride-All.

Bride-All are an established wedding gown and formal wear supplier and are one of the largest in East Anglia. Visit their website at www.bride-all.co.uk

Saturday 20th September 2008. Newnham College, Cambridge.

What a great wedding! The weather was fantastic and the venue was amazing. We had a great time photographing Jenny and Robin’s wedding and our thanks to them both and their families for making us feel so welcome.

Jenny is from Melbourne, Australia and obviously brought the weather with her.  (Isn’t there a song about that?)  Jenny’s parents have a place in Cambridge, where we got started with some great pictures before heading off to Newnham College.

This months crop of awards from the Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers was the best yet. We entered four pictures in the categories of ‘Wedding Traditional’, ‘Family Portraiture & Groups’, ‘Environmental Portraiture’, and ‘Bridal Portraiture’ and all four were awarded  Silver.

One of the pictures was from our most recent pre-wedding photoshoot of Jenny and Robin. The other three were from Hannah and Lee’s wedding in June. The total awards from that wedding now total 4 Silvers and 1 Bronze.

One of the pictures features as the header for the blog and other pictures from this month awards are:

Environmental Portraiture Category

(From Jenny & Robin’s Pre Wedding Photoshoot)

Family Portraiture and Groups Category

(Photographed at Hannah & Lee’s Wedding in June).